Attorney General Paula Dow should not get judgeship

Mark Di Ionno’s column about Wakir Bryant (“A criminal’s life, an innocent’s death,” Jan. 5) is a stunning example of how badly the Essex County and New Jersey criminal justice systems are broken. Bryant’s criminal career was entirely during the tenure of Paula Dow’s failed administration of the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, an office she continued to control when she became Gov. Chris Christie’s attorney general.

As pointed out by Di Ionno, Bryant was never brought to justice while he committed crime after crime with a firearm in Essex County, where criminal cases constantly were allowed to fall between the cracks, thereby emboldening the likes of Bryant and his ilk to make Newark, East Orange and other towns horrible places for decent people to live.

Paula Dow must not now be rewarded with a judgeship just because she carried Gov. Chris Christie’s water.